Then on the flip side contractors usually get paid for hours worked, including evening software releases, weekend on-call and so forth. Employees.. not so much

Then on the flip side contractors usually get paid for hours worked, including evening software releases, weekend on-call and so forth. Employees.. not so much. I'll take job insecurity over unpaid on-call any day of the week (especially Saturday and Sunday). Besides, employees get fired pretty easily from what I see. In some States they often get some severance to offset lawsuits, but a contractor still makes more.